With new additions to the side such as Alexis Sanchez and Cesc Fabregas slotting in nicely under Guardiola's regime and a World
Club Cup win last year to boot, it's hard to imagine why Barcelona have been so inconsistent away from home this season.
Not exact matches
They have made it to the MLS playoffs three times (2015, 2016 and 2017), becoming the first Canadian
club to reach the MLS
Cup final in 2016 and the first to
win the MLS
Cup in 2017.
There's been plenty of talk surrounding Arsene Wenger's future at Arsenal over the past few seasons and whilst many believed that he may have left the
club on a high note when he
won the FA
CUP back in 2014, he has since stayed on for another two seasons.
«Until that,
win the FA
Cup or the League
Cup — it will be fantastic for our fans but is not going to move the
club to a different level.
The first would cement the
club (and Wenger) as the all - time best in the oldest Football
Cup in the world (which has a nice ring to it and
winning at Wembley always is a great feeling), the 2nd would also be very sweet as we could use adding a European Football
Cup to our trophy cabinet (and the bigger one is out of reach for the moment)!
Arsenal reached the semi-final of the FA
Cup thanks to a dominating 5 - 0
win over Lincoln City, but could the competition prove more crucial in the future of our
club than it normally would?
Name two active coaches who can
win an Premiership or FA
Cup without oil money or massive
club money.
Well there are lots of Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that the World
Cup winning striker is set to leave the Emirates before thew summer transfer window closes and the
club most likely to take him was the Italian champions Juventus.
In fact, Per Mertesacker seems to be the only one of the Wor5ld
Cup winning Gunners who has been professional enough to come back and get himself right for his
club.
The 27 - year - old has since gone on to to
win two more Champions Leagues (in addition to the one he
won in 2013 with Bayern), two FIFA World
Club cups and a La Liga title with Los Blancos.
He also lifted the Champions League three times,
winning his first title in 2000, while also playing his part in the
club's tenth European
Cup triumph — the «Decima» success of 2014.
Sanchez is also not
cup - tied in the Champions League so could be a big boost to any
club that does
win the race for his signature this January.
The City captain was not at his best during the campaign as he and the
club fell short the high standards set in the 2013/14 season, where they
won a domestic
cup double.
The two «big
clubs» that the 29 - year - old has played for are the Gunners and Bayern Munich according to the World
Cup winning national team captain, and he has failed to live up to expectations at both of them.
We need at least five quality players a defender, goalkeeper, a defensive midfielder, a attacking midfielder and a striker Though
winning the f.a
cup did take a bit of pressure of him only time will tell There got to be a new structure at the
club, and get rid of the also rans like Lucas Perez, Jenkinson, debuchy and sagono for starters
Higuain is a big NO, he's a bottler of note on the biggest stages, there's a reason Real Madrid got rid of him and he only wound up at Napoli instead of other big champions league
clubs, he doesn't have the
winning mentality needed to take us forward he missed the best chance in the world
cup final then does the same in the copa america final
The two
clubs are the most successful in FA
Cup history, with eleven
wins each, and will continue their rivalry on Monday, as they face off against each other for the fifteenth time in the competition, with the Gunners having
won five of those previous meetings, while United have claimed seven victories.
But we'd just
won the FA
Cup when he left, why leave a
club on the up?
Ramsey has scored the
winning goal in 2 FA
Cup finals, instant
Club legend status regardless of how average and injury prone hes been in both EPL and CL over the years.
A draw wount be gud enough for dis game nd any other game, we need to imbibe dat
winning mentality of a big
club, nt hoping for a draw or a slim defeat against other big teams, wil it be an offence if we
win our remaining 15 epl matches or
win all our ucl nd fa
cup matches?
Van Gaal will leave on a high note having
won the FA
Cup, but United supporters will now be expecting much more in the coming years with Mourinho breathing new life and belief into the
club that they will be able to compete at the top of the Premier League as of next season.
Moan moan moan it's a real shame we
won the FA
cup 2 days ago if we keep improving you might have to look for a new
club who you can spend your days moaning about.
The ties over, so I would try to
win the game but the players are only playing for the shirt imo, it's not impossible, but highly improbable they have a mean defense, let's cement 3rd and retain the fa
cup (relatively poor) I know because of the expectation and all the noise the
club was making last summer but its a slight improvement.
I rate Ozil high from what he's shown... the first season he signed we
won fa
cup, he's a winner what didn't fabregaz and nasir
win for the
club?
The 32 - year - old striker spent the best part of four years at the
club after moving from rivals Manchester United in 2009, and
won the FA
Cup, the Premier League and the Charity Shield during his time at Eastlands.
Zidane has
won liga and three Champions leagues, super
cup and world
club cup and six months later fans are calling him names.
The London
club are without a
win in six Premier League games while they also made a tame exit from the FA
Cup at the hands of Sheffield United last month.
Sorry
Winning Europa
cup isn't Micky mouse
cup... you only need to see the number and caliber of
clubs chasing it now.
The good news for the Arsenal
club captain Per Mertesacker is that the recovery from the knee injury that the World
Cup winning centre back picked up in the pre-season game against Lens is still going well.
Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA
Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this lett
Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football
Club.This same
Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than
winning a Domestic
Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this lett
Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA
cup win of last season to enter into this lett
cup win of last season to enter into this letter.
Pellegrini has spent an incredible # 172m on just eleven players since taking over at the Etihad Stadium, and although he
won the Premier League and Capital One
Cup double in his first campaign with the
club, he looks set to finish trophyless this term and possibly even out of the top four after a surprisingly poor recent run of form.
The point of pointing out the EPL and FA
cup wins is to emphasize that we never read about their fans holding protest marches or carrying banners and generally making themselves cannon fodder for the media and other
clubs» fans.
Who knows, he could do better than three FA
cup wins in the last four years, three community shield
wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five
clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.
Phil i agree get to the game but i think the majority have enjoyed finishing top four playing beautifully entertaining attacking football and
winning fa
cups making it to another final this year also emirates and invincible a champions league final we sadly lost but hey made it there and wengers success is legendary hes a
club legend somone arsenal fams will tell there kids and grand kids about but lets
win and make it to the final they are special go arsenal
we
won four trophies since then... And nothing changes at arsenal!!!! the
club broke the record of fa
cups wins and the manager a record from........
Most
clubs only dream about
winning the FA
Cup, which Arsenal has
won 13 times.
We fans that want change see ourselves as a top
club that needs to
win epl and ucl while people like you have accepted just like wenger that we are a 6th placed team that is overachieving by
winning fa
cups.
No top
club will leave the manager in the job for decades without
winning the league because they
win fa
cups, spanish
cups, french
cups, german
cups, italian
cups and so on.
As this week was the last 64 of the Midlands Conference
Cup we must mention that the Hockey
Club has the Occasionals, Infrequents, and Ho's all through to the next round with 5 - 0, 4 - 1, and 5 - 1
wins respectively.
u have to be an utterly moronic corporate lacky to try to pretend that it is some kind of achievement to
win it) to be a triumph fa
cup is now a second level trophy just like finishing 4th is not like
winning the league... we were told that moving in to a fancy new stadium was our path to competing with the top European
clubs while instead we have since moving in fallen consistently behind..
I didn't say a «few» Fa
cup wins made Arsenal a bigger
club than Liverpool, you just made that up as you did when saying
clubs have different standards.
It is not ok for them to
win fa
cups and shields with arsenal because we make them believe so and we will see it will be ok for them to
win with other
clubs if the rumors are true.
In his first full season at the
club, 1997/98, the Gunners
won the League and beat Newcastle 2 - 0 in the FA
Cup Final.
Mourinho's job could be on the line if the
club slip below second and don't
win the FA
Cup, so there may be hope yet for the Frenchman that someone else comes in who can spark him into life again.
However, with the Northern 2A league title within touching distance, spirits are high within the
club and a
win tomorrow will certainly put a league,
cup double on the cards at the end of the season!
The 20 - year - old scored his first goal for the
club in their FA
Cup win over Scunthorpe United earlier this month as he was handed the second half of the clash to impress.
After
winning a long list of honours with Zenit St Petersburg, including a Uefa
Cup, he joined German
club Stuttgart where he failed to make an impact before coming to England.
He will miss his
club's next three games through suspension and will be hoping inspire his current XI to another famous turnaround, similar to that of the 2005 Champions League final and the 2006 FA
Cup final where he scored crucial goals to help Pool
win those games.
Of course it would be silly to suggest that
winning any game,
cup or otherwise, isn't good for the club, but let's remember just how problematic FA Cup success has been for this club... I'm certainly not going to suggest I didn't enjoy seeing Arsenal win, I'm a fan of this club first and foremost, but how bad are things when you find yourself secretly wishing that your own team lost so that just maybe real change would finally come... I resent this team for even making me feel such thoughts and it's going to take a lot of effort on their part to earn my trust again... this club has treated the fans so poorly that it has created an incredibly fragile and toxic environment, so much so that a «what have you done for me lately» mentality has emerged... fans rise and fall depending on the results of each game because we don't have faith in those in charge to make the necessary changes to personnel and tactics... each time we win many fans attack any dissenting voices and make unrealistic claims about the players, the manager and the potential for unprecedented success... every time we lose the boo - birds run rampant, calling for heads to roll and predicting the worst... regardless of what side you fall on, it's not your fault, both sides are simply overcompensating for the horrible state of affairs that have been percolating for several years... it's hard to take the long view when those in charge have lied incessantly and refuse to take any responsibilities for their own actions... in the end, we are trapped by the same catch - 22 that ManU faced upon Fergie's exit... less fearful of maintaining the status quo than facing the unknown, which was validated, wrongly or rightly, by witnessing the difficulties they have faced during this transitory period... to be honest, the thing that scares me most is that this team has never prepared whatsoever for this eventuality, which considering our frugal nature and the way we have shunned many of our most revered former players is more than a little disconcert
cup or otherwise, isn't good for the
club, but let's remember just how problematic FA
Cup success has been for this club... I'm certainly not going to suggest I didn't enjoy seeing Arsenal win, I'm a fan of this club first and foremost, but how bad are things when you find yourself secretly wishing that your own team lost so that just maybe real change would finally come... I resent this team for even making me feel such thoughts and it's going to take a lot of effort on their part to earn my trust again... this club has treated the fans so poorly that it has created an incredibly fragile and toxic environment, so much so that a «what have you done for me lately» mentality has emerged... fans rise and fall depending on the results of each game because we don't have faith in those in charge to make the necessary changes to personnel and tactics... each time we win many fans attack any dissenting voices and make unrealistic claims about the players, the manager and the potential for unprecedented success... every time we lose the boo - birds run rampant, calling for heads to roll and predicting the worst... regardless of what side you fall on, it's not your fault, both sides are simply overcompensating for the horrible state of affairs that have been percolating for several years... it's hard to take the long view when those in charge have lied incessantly and refuse to take any responsibilities for their own actions... in the end, we are trapped by the same catch - 22 that ManU faced upon Fergie's exit... less fearful of maintaining the status quo than facing the unknown, which was validated, wrongly or rightly, by witnessing the difficulties they have faced during this transitory period... to be honest, the thing that scares me most is that this team has never prepared whatsoever for this eventuality, which considering our frugal nature and the way we have shunned many of our most revered former players is more than a little disconcert
Cup success has been for this
club... I'm certainly not going to suggest I didn't enjoy seeing Arsenal
win, I'm a fan of this
club first and foremost, but how bad are things when you find yourself secretly wishing that your own team lost so that just maybe real change would finally come... I resent this team for even making me feel such thoughts and it's going to take a lot of effort on their part to earn my trust again... this
club has treated the fans so poorly that it has created an incredibly fragile and toxic environment, so much so that a «what have you done for me lately» mentality has emerged... fans rise and fall depending on the results of each game because we don't have faith in those in charge to make the necessary changes to personnel and tactics... each time we
win many fans attack any dissenting voices and make unrealistic claims about the players, the manager and the potential for unprecedented success... every time we lose the boo - birds run rampant, calling for heads to roll and predicting the worst... regardless of what side you fall on, it's not your fault, both sides are simply overcompensating for the horrible state of affairs that have been percolating for several years... it's hard to take the long view when those in charge have lied incessantly and refuse to take any responsibilities for their own actions... in the end, we are trapped by the same catch - 22 that ManU faced upon Fergie's exit... less fearful of maintaining the status quo than facing the unknown, which was validated, wrongly or rightly, by witnessing the difficulties they have faced during this transitory period... to be honest, the thing that scares me most is that this team has never prepared whatsoever for this eventuality, which considering our frugal nature and the way we have shunned many of our most revered former players is more than a little disconcerting
In the games in which Coquelin and Cazorla have started together, the Gunners have recorded victories over both Manchester
clubs, beat Liverpool 4 - 1 and retained both the FA
Cup and Community Shield with
wins against Aston Villa and Chelsea respectively at Wembley.